**To Comrade Theodorovich**

Copies: People's Commissariat of Food, Bryukhanov

» Supreme Council of the National Economy, Milyutin

Given the extreme urgency of the question concerning measures to combat drought, I request that you convene immediately a conference of representatives of the interested People's Commissariats, in order that the draft decree might be submitted, in developed and coordinated form, no later than Wednesday, 27. IV. 1921, to the Council of Labor and Defense.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1945

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript